Competitor vs Competence - What's the difference?
competitor | competence |
A person or organization against whom one is competing.
A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.
(uncountable) The quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.
* 2005 , Lies Sercu and Ewa Bandura, Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence: An International Investigation :
(countable) The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task.
* 1961 , National Council for Elementary Science (U.S.), Science Education :
A sustainable income.
* Alexander Pope
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 17
(countable) In law, the legal authority to deal with a matter.
As nouns the difference between competitor and competence
is that competitor is a person or organization against whom one is competing while competence is the quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.competitor
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Alternative forms
* competitour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (person against whom one is competing) adversary (loosely''), opponent (''loosely ) * (participant in a competition) contestantAnagrams
* * ----competence
English
Noun
- Teachers are now required to teach intercultural communicative competence .
- What professional competences do science teachers need?
- Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, / Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence .
- “money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence , it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned.”
- That question is out with the competence of this court and must be taken to a higher court.